Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [not/n't] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was common ground that the scheme , though set up pursuant to a statutory obligation , was a private and not a public law scheme so that the procedure by way of originating summons rather than judicial review was appropriate . |
2 | We are , after all , performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis . |
3 | Thirdly , the move towards a national curriculum was resisted most strongly by those , mainly teachers and other educationists , who claimed that the nature and scope of the school curriculum was a professional and not a political matter . |
4 | Andre Beteille argues that the search for a biological basis for social stratification is bound to end in failure since the ‘ identification as well as the gradation of qualities is a cultural and not a natural process ’ . |
5 | He is coughing up because the Om budsman has found five separate cases of maladministration which , the minister admits , amount to a moral if not a legal responsibility . |
6 | When the shoes were changed , I knew that the hound must be a natural and not a supernatural creature . |
7 | But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process . |
8 | It was a noisy but not a violent affair , the clashes between the Blackshirts and the Red Front outside being mainly verbal . |
9 | The graft , like the long spade , has a slightly rounded cutting edge , which again needs to have a good but not a sharp edge to it . |
10 | By contrast , artists normally strive , at least supposedly , for a general but not a specific truth , for a truth to life — however defined — but not a truth to particular individuals . |
11 | First of all , it is a thrusting and not a snapping kick . |
12 | But the rapid and dramatic changes which are taking place in the world today , changes of a hopeful and not a frightening kind , could help to make a long-serving government more vulnerable to the time-for-a-change mentality . |
13 | Clearly an equitable geographical distribution of services is a necessary but not a sufficient precondition for an equal , let alone an equitable , use of services . |
14 | Second there is general agreement that a minimum level of literacy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the process of industrialisation . |
15 | Fifth thesis : Research is a necessary but not a sufficient ingredient for higher education |
16 | A commitment ideologically and professionally to a holistic assessment of need and risk , rather than the assessment of eligibility for service , is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for effective assessment practice . |
17 | The United Kingdom is a unitary and not a federal state , thus if central government is really serious about any policy it will get its way ( Griffith , 1965 ) . |
18 | That Vic Williams was a voluntary and not a conscripted soldier was irrelevant to the issue of conscientious objection , she added . |